Survey shows Chinese prefer Google over Baidu

[bill]

The people at Keynote surveyed 1200 Chinese web surfers to determine their preference for the Chinese language search engines and put a press release [keynote.com] on their site yesterday.

The results of the survey show a strong preference for Google among the Chinese. In fact, Google outperformed its competitors in 11 of the 13 business success drivers measured in the study, including those for general search, news search and image search. That's a big turn around from the reports we've read here. Just a short while ago our members in China were complaining about the poor quality of Google's Chinese language SERPs. A lot of Baidu's appeal was its superior Chinese language results.

Read through the survey summary [keynote.com] and tell us if you agree.

[Shak]

A survey about China it's Internet usage will show whaever YOU want it to show.

I am not saying this is the case in this specific survey mentioned.

But let's just say what you READ and what's actually happening are 1 and the same.

I guarantee you that you could have 3 different surveys, and they'd choose either:

1, Baidu
2, Google
3, AliBaba/Yahoo

that's just the way it is over here ...

Shak